correspondentとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˌkɒɹɪˈspɒndənt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkɔɹɪˈspɑndənt/

形容詞

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correspondent (comparative more correspondent, superlative most correspondent)

1. Corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous.
   • 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, J[ohn] S[penser], editor, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, OCLC 931154958, (please specify the page):

     Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law.

   • 1577, “Constantinus the Emperour Summoneth the Nicene Councell”, in Meredith Hanmer, transl., The Avncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ, translation of original by Eusebius Pamphilus, page 225:

     [VV]e are able with playne demonſtration to proue, and vvith reaſon to perſvvade that in tymes paſt our fayth vvas alike, that then vve preached thinges correſpondent vnto the forme of faith already published of vs, ſo that none in this behalfe can repyne or gaynesay vs.

2. (with to または with) Conforming; obedient.
   • 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:

     ARIEL: Pardon, master: / I will be correspondent to command, / And do my spriting gently.

名詞

correspondent (複数形 correspondents)

1. Someone who or something which corresponds.
2. Someone who communicates with another person, or a publication, by writing.
3. A journalist who sends reports back to a newspaper or radio or television station from a distant or overseas location.

下位語

• stringer

派生語

参考

• corespondent
• Correspondent in Wikipedia

参照

• “correspondent” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.